U.N. Security Council condemns N. Korea rocket launch

December 12, 2012News Extra

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council is condemning North Korea’s successful rocket launch.

The U.N.’s most powerful body said today in a brief statement after closed consultations that the launch violated a 2009 Security Council resolution banning “any launch using ballistic missile technology.”

The council said that after the North’s failed launch in April it demanded that Pyongyang halt all launches.